[...] Despite retiring from regular playing in 2007, Vinson still dusts off the cobwebs every summer to play in the IBL. The IBL is a very minor league with no coverage here, other than the exploits of one team; the Los Angeles Lightning. Last summer [the IBL plays in the summer], the Lightning churned out a veritably stacked roster of people you've heard of; Lamond MurrayJamal Sampson, Bryon Russell, Toby Bailey, Juaquin Hawkins, Adam Parada, California State senator Tony Strickland, and Darrick Martin. Some of those, such as Vinson, were retired players (or politicians) just looking to scratch their playing itch; some (Parada, Sampson, Murray) were still playing professional careers and just wanted a little summer gig. Either way, the team was stacked, and the Lightning breezed to the IBL title.

Murray is currently the Assistant Director of Player Development within the complicated Minnesota Timberwolves front office hierarchy. He had unofficially retired at the end of the 2007-08 season, yet reappeared as a player on the stacked Los Angeles Lightning IBL team in the summer of 2009. But it wasn't a comeback; it was just for fun.